Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 1, 2023

Is the Ford Mustang Mach-E the Best Thing To Happen to the EV Industry? With the introduction of an electric version, we could see a dramatic change in the EV industry. This targets a market the EV industry has been trying to hit for some time. This highlights a huge opportunity for other manufacturers in the auto industry.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 8, 2023

The concept of vehicles being intelligent devices is relatively new, and it has largely come as a result of Tesla’s contributions to the auto industry.

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Supplies Auto Industry Concept Tesla 111

Electrek

APRIL 3, 2023

As it transitions to fully electric, zero-emission vehicles, Volkswagen looks to maintain its position in the auto industry. Part of this plan includes transforming iconic brand names like the Golf and Tiguan to electric while adding new EVs to the lineup, such as VW’s new affordable ID 2all concept.

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Teslarati

APRIL 4, 2023

Genesis has unveiled the GV80 electric SUV concept, which shows an unusual next step in performance EVs for the brand. Now, Genesis has shown off its newest concept vehicle, which could define how the brand moves forward in the near future, the GV80. With this showing today, the company is on track to achieve just that.

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Concept Auto Industry BMW SUV 113

Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2023

Compared to the conventional blast furnace process, CO 2 emissions from steelmaking that are a feature of production can be significantly reduced by this innovative technology while maintaining product quality—which also significantly reduces the carbon footprint of products with a high steel content, for example in the automotive industry.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Toyota will stage the world debut of the FT-Bh concept, an ultra-lightweight, full hybrid city car study, designed to achieve low emissions within an economically viable production framework, at the Geneva Motor Show.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 12, 2019

At the pace of the auto industry, and its five or six year cycles, it’s overdue. Last week Fiat revealed an all-electric Concept Centoventi, which envisioned a future EV that would offer a lot. Are you ready for a new generation of the Fiat 500e electric car?

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Electric Cars 2020 Auto Industry Cars 158

Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

“It’s really about the level of dedication companies have to the auto industry,” he stated. Others are prone to devote extra sources to delivery alternative industries’ items within the match of a protracted collision, he stated.

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Auto Tennessee Store Detroit 52

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Nissan’s latest approach to engine development has raised the bar to world-leading levels, accelerating past the current auto industry average range of 40% thermal efficiency, making it possible to even further reduce vehicle CO 2 emissions. The STARC concept.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

With the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show less than two weeks away the German auto industry is starting to really crank out the concept cars. Latest in the onslaught of new German metal is the Audi A2 concept. If you think the name sounds familiar then you aren't wrong. It was never sold in the U.S.

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Teslarati

APRIL 25, 2023

Honda appears ready to go full electric and dive into the increasing competition in the EV industry. With the popularity of electric vehicles continuously rising, legacy automakers like Honda are reevaluating their place in the general auto industry. The e:N SUV xù concept model was unveiled at Auto Shanghai this month.

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Electric Motorcycles Motorcycles Honda North America 73

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Automotive and industrial supplier Schaeffler has opened a new production facility at its Szombathely location in the west of Hungary. Schaeffler’s total sustainability concept also includes on-site outdoor nature zones and an organic pond for enhanced local biodiversity. million between 2026 and 2029.

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Hungary Auto Industry Motor Motors 221

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2019

BAIC-Xiaoju New Energy Auto Technology Co. Jingju is a key component of a DiDi-BAIC strategic partnership formed in a growing alliance between DiDi and auto-industry players. Xiaoju Automobile Solutions?XAS?was

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 6, 2012

Next week's Detroit Auto Show promises to be the busiest and most influential in several years. With the auto industry continuing to recover slowly from its 2008 meltdown and Chinese sales rising, both U.S. and overseas automakers will launch new models and show off gleaming concept cars. The largest.

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Detroit Green Cars Auto Green 114

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2012

In polling 200 C-level executives in the global automotive industry for the 2012 automotive survey, KPMG found that executives in the US and Western Europe expect even less consumer adoption, projecting e-vehicles will only account for 6-10% of global annual auto sales. —Gary Silberg.

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Global Auto Sale Vehicles 236

Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2015

Fraunhofer researchers have developed a laser arc method with which layers of carbon almost as hard as diamond can be applied on an industrial scale at high coating rates and with high thicknesses. So far PLD and HIPIMS are not suitable for industrial applications due to their low efficiency, Fraunhofer notes.

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Carbon Industrial Industry Hydrogen 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The facilities will be led by teams of industry-leading researchers, designers and engineers located in close proximity to automakers’ manufacturing sites in North America, China and Europe. As the facilities come online, cross-regional teams will be in place to ramp up product development in critical stages for the auto industry.

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Teslarati

APRIL 27, 2023

Besides Tesla’s evident impact on the auto industry switching to electric vehicles, its other significant contribution is to automotive design. Ford has patented a new gullwing door design, which likely takes a little inspiration from the Tesla Model X.

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Ford Tesla Design Auto Industry 144

Green Car Reports

APRIL 27, 2011

The history of the auto industry is littered with the carcasses of the cars and companies that didn't make it. But many concepts, development vehicles, one-offs, and other technology experiments preceded that first Prius. Modern hybrid-electric vehicles were first commercialized by Toyota, with its 1997 Prius (sold in the U.S.

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Concept Hybrid Prius 2000 93

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

China-based technology company LeEco and Aston Martin have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) towards the creation of a partnership that will develop a production version of the Aston Martin RapidE electric vehicle concept—a fully electric version of the Rapide S four-door sports sedan. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Aston Martin 2018 Future Market 150

Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Why might all the electric-car concepts at last week's Frankfurt auto show be a sign of desperation? What news out of China could scramble the future of the global auto industry? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending on Friday, September 15, 2017.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2017

At the Tokyo Motor Show, Mazda is introducing the KAI CONCEPT compact hatchback ( earlier post ), powered by the next-generation SKYACTIV-X spark-controlled compression-ignition (SPCCI) gasoline engine ( earlier post ), SKYACTIV-Vehicle Architecture and a more mature expression of the KODO design language. Earlier post.). Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

We don’t expect output figures in the auto industry to return to pre-crisis levels for at least two to three years. We will not be losing any technology segments through this but will adapt our site concept and consolidate capabilities.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Striking Ford employees are heading back to the assembly line today after the United Auto Workers (UAW) union reached a tentative labor deal with the company late on Wednesday. This agreement sets us on a new path to make things right at Ford, at the Big Three, and across the auto industry.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2013

The facility will allow Ford to collaborate with battery cell manufacturers, suppliers, university researchers and startups to test new battery concepts on a small scale that could be replicated for full production. This is sorely needed, and no one else in the auto industry has anything like it.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

The investment positions Aleris to meet anticipated significant growth in North American automotive demand as the industry pursues broader aluminum use for the production of lighter, more fuel-efficient vehicles. When fully operational, the new facility will allow for the production of 480 million pounds of aluminum auto body sheet annually.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Cadillac included the Converj concept car at the 2009 North American International Auto Show. Cadillac needs as much excitement in its portfolio as possible, so I think it’s a good strategy for them,” said Rebecca Lindland, director of auto industry research at IHS Global Insight in Lexington, Mass. Earlier post.)

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 13, 2023

Then came the auto, saving cities and transforming the world of transportation. And the auto industry had to respond to policy issues. Energy shortages in the late 1970s and 1980s led to the auto industry going from big energy-draining automobiles to smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles.

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Future Automobile Transportation Gas-Electric 82

Teslarati

MAY 11, 2023

As mentioned above, this added revenue source, a very new concept to the auto industry as a whole, is the jet fuel that Wood believes will propel Tesla’s stock to the astronomical ~$2,400 price target in the near future.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Since a concept version was unveiled at the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show, all eyes have been on Audi's electric crossover to be the auto-industry establishment's first true rival to the Tesla Model X. But another luxury brand could beat Audi to the punch.

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SUV 2017 Audi Auto Industry 60

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

ALTe already has Gen 1 proof-of-concept systems running in a Crown Vic taxi equipped with a 20 kWh Li-ion battery pack. In the Crown Victoria, the proof of concept powertrain conversion systems improve fuel economy from 80%-200% from the base 4.6L 20 kWh pack in the proof-of-concept Crown Vic conversion. Click to enlarge.

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EV Central

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Polestar boss Thomas Ingenlath with the Precept concept, which is heading for production as the Polestar 5. The government will issue a discussion paper on emissions strategy for auto industry comment and response this month. Among those recently quoted warning caution are BMW and tier one auto supplier Bosch.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 13, 2015

The great thing about the Detroit Auto Show is that it brings so many global auto industry executives together under one roof.

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Chevrolet Electric Cars 2018 Detroit 60

Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2016

Plasma oxidation can be used to produce all grades of carbon fiber from low-end industrial to high-end aerospace grades. Paulauskas developed the scientific concept for the plasma oxidation method eight years ago and worked with RMX Technologies to develop prototypes and demonstrate the technology at the lab scale. Click to enlarge.

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Carbon Fiber Carbon Energy Production 150

Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

auto industry, buyers have been slower to catch on to the concept. After years of slow sales around a decade ago, Toyota has now sold over 4 million hybrids. And Honda recently passed its first million. But in the home of the U.S. According to the Detroit Free Press, research by Edmunds shows.

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Michigan Hybrid Plug-in Sale 84

Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2009

CLEPA (the European umbrella membership organization representing the interests of the global automotive supply industry) and EUCAR (the European Council for Automotive R&D from the major European passenger car and commercial vehicle manufacturers) jointly prepared the document. Funding will be spread over four years. €1

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Green Cars Industrial Industry Green 150

Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 1, 2021

The auto industry is not known as a second career for comedy writers. Jeep made real news with a new EV concept. It’s a serious EV, enough to make the name change almost credible—until you realize we’re talking about a German corporation that is one of largest auto companies in the world. It happens every year.

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